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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Chicago, or the place would look like Texas.

UPDATE: Warzone: 42 People Shot In Chicago Over Memorial Day Weekend

Steve Sailer reports.

Apparently the New York Times is taking advantage of the SJW takeover of mainstream SF publishing to provide a platform for the New Darlings of SF to get explicitly political (I mean, even more so than at present).

UPDATE: NYT Gives Up The Charade, Now Running Pure Fiction As Op-eds

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A biological male who identifies as a transgender woman won an NCAA national championship over Memorial Day weekend.

Here is where Political Correctness turns around and kicks feminists squarely in the butt.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of folks.

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Someone remarked, “I swear, these people demand government control because they know they need someone to control themselves, and they’re not up to the job.”

I like Scott Adams’ idea of starting the ‘gun control’ process by prohibiting Democrats from owning guns.

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Cash-strapped Illinois is one step closer to passing a new income tax with the potential to seriously accelerate the exodus of high-earning taxpayers from the most financially dysfunctional state in America.

Lawmakers in the Illinois House of Representatives on Monday approved a constitutional amendment aiming to get rid of the state’s flat income tax, clearing the way for the amendment to be included on the November 2020 ballot for ratification by the voters. Governor JB Pritzker is widely expected to sign it the amendment, which has already been passed by the State Senate.

Politicians seem to think that people will just sit still and stand for having their pockets picked. Chicago ain’t New Yawk, and it ain’t L.A.; people are going to leave. (Actually, I can’t think of any reason for a rich person to be in Illinois in the first place.)

David Cole turns over a rock.

It occurred to me this week that anti-whiteness is the new anti-Semitism. Not that Jew hatred no longer exists. It does, of course. But the formula’s been tweaked.

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Generally speaking, far-rightists in the U.S. who hate Jews hate them more for their politics than for their identity. Whites, on the other hand, are totally hated by leftists just for being white. Whites are now hated for the exact same reason Jews were hated in the past: They exist. The parallels between current anti-whiteness and old-timey Jew hatred are strong. Whites are born cursed (white privilege), and they walk the earth to torment the good and the decent. Everything bad that exists today, and everything bad throughout history, has been because of the white menace. Whites are “the source of the world’s ills” (that’s an exact quote from The Guardian, frighteningly similar to the motto on the masthead of Der Stürmer: “Die Juden sind unser Unglück!”—“The Jews are our misfortune!”).

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On May 21, the Nevada Senate approved the National Popular Vote (NPV) interstate compact. Approval was strictly party-line, with all Democrats in favor and all Republicans against. Colorado’s Democratic legislature approved NPV earlier this year.

Since 1864, every state has recognized the right of its people to choose their presidential electors. NPV would change that. Irrespective of how the people of an NPV state voted, its electors would be chosen by the “national popular vote winner.” And to qualify as the “national popular vote winner,” a presidential candidate would need only a plurality — not a majority — of ballots cast nationwide. There would be no run-off elections.

ZMan nails it.

In America, social unrest is increasing, despite the increase in economic activity, because the white population senses a loss in their prosperity. Would the typical white person pay a little more for groceries if the stores were staffed with white people and the emergency room did not look like a Tijuana bus stop? From the perspective of economics, we would be poorer, but the quality of life would be much higher. It turns out that the true cost of cheap labor is the prosperity of the people.

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Archbishop Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero of San Luis Potosí in central Mexico is facing a charge filed by a LGBTQ activist for engaging in alleged “hate speech” after the prelate expressed Christian teachings about homosexuality and the sanctity of marriage.

Coming to a banana republic near you.

Freeberg speaks wisdom.

So in politics, before you start doing things everyone knows are bad things, make sure you falsely accuse your political opponents of doing it first, then you can get away with it. People don’t remember what was done. They remember what was said. And when each side is accusing the other, they’d rather watch Kardashians.

That’s why democrats say Republicans disbelieve science, wreck the economy, waste money on useless wars, look down with contempt on poor people, ruin public education, divert precious resources on dumb useless investigations, create constitutional crises, abuse offices, discriminate…always accuse the other side of doing what you’re doing.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

We do — it’s call the VA. Look it up if you want to find out how such a system works. (Hint: It doesn’t.)

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The technical term for vegetarians is ‘herbivore’ and the function of a herbivore within the context of nature is ‘prey’.

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How unfortunate.

Ramesh Ponnuru takes a look.

If you want to model the APA, you could do worse than a giant firehose that takes in pharmaceutical company money at one end, and shoots lectures about social justice out the other.

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School of Resentment is a term coined by critic Harold Bloom to describe related schools of literary criticism which have gained prominence in academia since the 1970s and which Bloom contends are preoccupied with political and social activism at the expense of aesthetic values.

Broadly, Bloom terms “Schools of Resentment” approaches associated with Marxist critical theory, including African American studies, Marxist literary criticism, New Historicist criticism, feminist criticism, and poststructuralism—specifically as promoted by Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. The School of Resentment is usually defined as all scholars who wish to enlarge the Western canon by adding to it more works by authors from minority groups without regard to aesthetic merit and/or influence over time, or those who argue that some works commonly thought canonical promote sexist, racist or otherwise biased values and should therefore be removed from the canon. Bloom contends that the School of Resentment threatens the nature of the canon itself and may lead to its eventual demise. Philosopher Richard Rorty[2] agreed that Bloom is at least partly accurate in describing the School of Resentment, writing that those identified by Bloom do in fact routinely use “subversive, oppositional discourse” to attack the canon specifically and Western culture in general.

It’s in Wikipedia, so it must be true.

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Yet another disadvantage of ‘public transportation’.

Ace of Spades points out that many can play that game.

Throwing milkshakes at CBS personnel, both when they’re doing live-shots and when they’re just walking down the street on their own private time.

The rules you make for me, you also make for yourself.

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The Reformation centered around Luther’s message that truth is found in Scripture alone, or sola scriptura. It seems astonishing that such a message could change into more or less its exact opposite. The Reformation tried to put the West on the narrow road of the Bible. But the path had two side-alleys: The increased focus on the believer’s personal relationship with God, and the weakened bonds to the Catholic Church, could result in individuals taking control of religiosity and politicians taking control of the church, leaving both the church and the Bible on the sidelines.

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And who deserves it more?

Time to move, guys.

Plenty of room in Texas … for the right people.

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A shanty-town built by people with money, just not enough.

Apparently WalMart is very RV-friendly, but I don’t know whether a tony place like Mountain View would allow a WalMart in their neighborhood.

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Eventually the twisted arm will break. Will Iran see the light before then? Hard to say, since the people who are suffering under economic sanctions aren’t the ruling clique, but the poor beggars in the street. In the old days, the classic outcome was an uprising and ‘regime change’, but that’s less and less likely s the technological tools of the State grow more and more effective.

We shall see.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

We could call it, oh, I don’t know, maybe — Medicare For All?

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When crossing the border with a child and pretending it’s yours gets you a better chance to stay, children will have a market value whether anyone likes it or not.

Things with a market value, in an environment full of criminals, tend to get stolen.

‘Progressives’ forget everything they know, or ought to know, about human behavior whenever such knowledge is inconsistent with whatever brilliant idea they just had.

Steve Sailer reads this stuff so you don’t have to.

At least four top Department of Education executives who have been demoted or stripped of duties under Carranza’s sweeping reorganization are poised to sue the city, claiming he has created “an environment which is hostile toward whites,” a source told The Post.

The women — all white, veteran administrators — contend they were pushed aside for less qualified persons of color.

To the victors belong the spoils. Suck it up, babes.

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The floating homeless population in wealthy Marin County, just across the Golden Gate Strait from San Francisco, has doubled in the last five years to over 100. The community of 200 barges, sailboats, and other vessels comprise of people who are employed but can’t afford to live on land, jobless folks, the homeless, and some people who are mentally ill. Boat life for them isn’t easy:

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And coastal California lurches every closer to the edge….

UPDATE: In San Francisco, Tech Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness

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Once again, ‘progressives’ show themselves to be actually regressive.

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Conservative students enter college with higher SAT scores and GPAs than liberal students, but by the fourth year of college have lower GPAs than liberal peers, which may be a consequence of institutional bias, finds a new working paper from the University of Arkansas.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Absolutely. As a fat ugly black woman, she is the very image of the modern Democrat party.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Translation: They’re going to impose censorship wherever they can, which will quickly become politically motivated.

When you realize that ‘tech giants’ means ‘social justice warriors with lots of money and power’, it all becomes clearer.

ZMan nails it.

One of the weird features of current age America is it is kind of like a community theater production of popular Broadway shows. The people on stage are enthusiastic to play the roles and the production people work hard to get everything just as the audience would remember it. The audience will tolerate some changes and revisions, in order to update the show, but otherwise they want to see the original. The culture of this age is like a long re-do of the past, in order to get it right this time.

Just once I’d like to see a candidate get up and say ‘We need change!’ and have somebody in the audience get up and yell back ‘No, we don’t! We need to have you clowns in office to quit changing shit all the time! Let us get used to what’s going on before you go changing everything up again! If you have to change, change it the fuck back the way it was!’

Where this lack of new ideas is most obvious is in the realm of politics. The vast Democratic field, which is up to 22 now, is interesting for the sole reason that it is the wildly boring cast of characters. The front-runners are two near-dead geezers who sound like museum exhibits on the 1970’s. The rest remind everyone of the people you meet at a corporate retreat. They are studies in blandness. The primary is going to be a beauty contest without a talent competition, because no one has any talent.

Ain’t that the truth. What people want is somebody like Mitt Romney who will do what Trump is doing but not make such a Broadway production out of it — a New Reagan. But that’s not going to happen.

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Gloom! Doom! Gloom! Doom! Gloom! Doom!

Under the hood of “recovery” and a higher GDP, life has gotten harder and more insecure for the bottom 90%.

Think of it as evolution in action. We have an excess of Useless People. Time to cull the herd.

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‘For he only will insist that it be shared….’

(Extra points if you catch the reference.)

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Well, it used to be that a family (i.e. ‘children’) was an advantage — more people to work the farm or the shop, help out when the ‘rents got old, that sort of thing. We don’t need any of that nowadays, so why go to all the hassle of having chidren? They’re like pets you can’t get rid of if they turn out to have behavioral problems. Who wants that?

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Workers seizing the ‘means of production’ is like a ship’s crew doing a mutiny. ‘Oh, wait … any of you guys know navigation? George? Fred? Sam? Anybody?’

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The class-action lawsuit [PDF] from TurboTax users from across the United States was lodged in San Francisco, and joins one filed [PDF] last week by the Los Angeles City Attorney on behalf of the people of California, also against Intuit.

Both lawsuits claim that Intuit’s use of HTML metatags to prevent search engines from indexing the website where the free software is available led to people being “intentionally misled and deprived of the opportunity to make an informed decision about their tax-filing service.” In other words, people went straight to the paid-for system not knowing there was a free alternative.

Under an agreement with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), tax software companies offer free-filing versions of their products for those earning under a certain amount (typically $66,000 a year). In return, the IRS agrees not to produce its own tax filing software.

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Anybody who buys or rides in a Tesla is a moron.

Elon Musk isn’t Tony Stark; he’s Justin Hammer.

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Aranda reportedly told investigators he was “looking for somebody to kill” on April 12 when he randomly chose and threw the boy nearly 40 feet to the ground. He allegedly wanted to kill another person earlier, but it did not “work out,” according to The Associated Press.

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She complains about ‘the patriarchy’ while wearing a Muslim head-veil.

What’s Arabic for ‘sonderkommando’?

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Note that no American or European river is in the top 10.

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Anyone who drives or rides in a Tesla is a moron.

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Just another fashion victim.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

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More adventure from the Whitest City in America.

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During the first Jobsian era at Apple, I used to joke that Steve Jobs cared deeply about Apple customers from the moment they first considered purchasing an Apple computer right up until the time their check cleared the bank. Of course, in later years, the check was replace by a credit card, and check clearance was replaced by the 15-day return period, but Steve’s and Apple’s focus remained the same.

What do most buyers not want? They don’t want to see all kinds of scary-looking controls surrounding a media player. They don’t want to see a whole bunch of buttons they don’t understand. They don’t want to see scroll bars. They do want to see clean screens with smooth lines. Buyers want to buy Ferraris, not tractors, and that’s exactly what Apple is selling.

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I was back: I was at MLA (short for “Modern Language Association”), the annual pageant for literary studies, my old vocation. Here scholars gather every January, performing the time-honored rite of solemnly chanting 20-minute papers before one another in hotel conference rooms. And here, until recently, the field held interviews for its ever-dwindling pool of tenure-track professorships. They’ve largely switched to Skype now.

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All around them, the humanities burned. The number of jobs in English advertised on the annual MLA job list has declined by 55 percent since 2008; adjuncts now account for all but a quarter of college instructors generally. Whole departments are being extirpated by administrators with utilitarian visions; from 2013 to 2016, colleges cut 651 foreign-language programs. Meanwhile the number of English majors at most universities continues to swoon.

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Brooklyn’s MetroTech Center lacked a unified vision with its variety pack of 90s-fad architecture and is today largely unremarkable. Hudson Yards developer Related Companies took a similar approach, commissioning numerous so-called “starchitects” to build what New York Times Architecture critic Micheal Kimmelman describes as an “architectural petting zoo.”

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Which makes him unfit to be President, if you ask me.

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I am finding more and more attractive Scott Adams’ idea that we bar Democrats from owning guns.